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May 25, 2013

Genetic Disease Glossary of Terms

The following are health and medical definitions of terms that appear in the Genetic Disease article.

Acidosis: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Acquired: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Anemia: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Arthritis: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Asthma: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Atrophy: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Autosomal: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Autosomal dominant: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Autosomal recessive: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Blood pressure: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Breast cancer: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Cancer: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Cell: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Chromosome: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Chromosomes: See the definition from MedTerms.com

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Chronic: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Cystic fibrosis: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Cytoplasm: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Dementia: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Diabetes: See the definition from MedTerms.com

DNA: See the definition from MedTerms.com

DNA sequence: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Encephalopathy: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Epilepsy: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Eye color: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Fingerprint: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Gene: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Genes: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Genetic: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Genetic disease: See the definition from MedTerms.com

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Genome: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Heart: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Heart disease: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Hemochromatosis: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Heritable: See the definition from MedTerms.com

High blood pressure: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Human genome: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Human Genome Project: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Inheritance: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Klinefelter syndrome: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Marfan syndrome: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Mendelian: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Mitochondria: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Mitochondrial: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Mitochondrial disease: See the definition from MedTerms.com

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Mitochondrial DNA: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Mitochondrial inheritance: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Mitochondrion: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Multifactorial: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Multifactorial inheritance: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Mutation: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Nucleus: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Obesity: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Optic: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Polygenic: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Protein: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Recessive: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Respiration: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Sickle cell anemia: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Skin color: See the definition from MedTerms.com

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Sperm: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Stroke: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Syndrome: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Trisomy: See the definition from MedTerms.com

Turner syndrome: See the definition from MedTerms.com

X-linked: See the definition from MedTerms.com

XXY: See the definition from MedTerms.com

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